Develop the discipline prayer
00:00:00.000 | I cannot take credit for the long-term established discipline of prayer in our
00:00:11.160 | church that belongs to some faithful members in our church who have taught us
00:00:16.200 | all to pray. They were prayer warriors when I came every season of my life
00:00:23.520 | where I've noticed prayerlessness far far more than you know obviously you
00:00:28.680 | don't want to have prayerlessness but you know sometimes in leaders lives they
00:00:34.380 | can be self-reliant and any season like that in my life these people in our
00:00:41.460 | church these wonderful saints who have developed the discipline of prayer in
00:00:46.620 | their life become a rebuke to to me and to the church and so but I would say
00:00:54.780 | that if I were looking at my own heart personally and the elders collectively
00:01:03.660 | we we want to always be not asking the generic questions but the very careful
00:01:11.880 | questions about people's needs in a way that puts them on our mind you know it's
00:01:18.000 | interesting that when Paul would say over and over again I keep making mention to
00:01:23.140 | you of you in my prayers it's clear that he had lists he made lists there's this
00:01:31.380 | formal way that he cycled through the needs of people and you know we might have a
00:01:38.040 | a lot to answer for before the Lord when we have a cell phone right there when we
00:01:44.280 | can just put lists at our fingertips when back in his day it was you know how he made
00:01:50.820 | those lists and how he kept track of them must have been a discipline in and of itself but your leaders have to be praying people so we have times of prayer as a service as a church but all over the church
00:02:05.040 | we've admired and elevated those who develop that discipline so that the
00:02:09.540 | congregation can learn from those that have the greatest you know faithfulness at it